Soibam Haripriya completed her Ph.D from the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin (2022-2023). She was also the FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla. She has taught at the Centre for Sociology and Social Anthropology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati Campus and Gender Studies Programme, School of Human Studies Ambedkar University.